warpinator VS nitroshare-desktop

Warpinator

I don't know. After discovering PairDrop too, thanks to comments here, I've been testing it out to see if it could replace Warpinator [1] as a means to send files & directories between my PC and my Android phone when I'm at home.

First impression has been quite disappointing... I installed the PWA to my phone's home screen. Then opened up and paired with my PC as trusted device. Tried to send a PDF file from PC to phone, a dialog shows up with

File Received. PC has sent: file.pdf. Close/Download.

Upon clicking Download, Firefox (which is configured in Android as the default web browser) opens up, on the Homepage tab. Nothing else happens, and the file isn't downloaded. So I'm left pretty much confused about what should have happened vs. what did actually happen.

Good thing about Warpinator (and something I use a lot) is that you can enable accepting files without confirmation, and then you can drag & drop a whole folder to have it appear on the other device as-is. Something extremely useful but that I doubt web apps can achieve.

[1]: https://github.com/linuxmint/warpinator

They have linked the unofficial version in their GitHub repo https://github.com/linuxmint/warpinator

You can then use Syncthing or Warpinator alongside it to sync them to other devices.

Other than those you mentioned, there is Warpinator. It works flawlessly for me. You need to create a hotspot manually if there is no internet.

personally, KDE neon makes a great, stable windows-like os on Linux for me. as for file sharing, the best method is a hard/flash drive to store files. if you want to share files between computers on the same network use nitroshare

Nitroshare allows you to send files over WiFi on Windows, Mac, Linux, iPhone, and Android. It's P2P so all your files aren't intercepted by anyone else and they don't require any servers to be up and running, just for you to be on the same network. It's also open source on GitHub. I've used it for a few months and it's great. Link: https://nitroshare.net/

or nitroshare works across everything as far as i can tell (using it myself on windows and android)

Okay. So, you have to PC Windows and Ubuntu, right? You can create an smb share and access it through your Windows PC. Or you can use Nitroshare. And make sure your both PC have a Gigabit ethernet connection. The best way to test your network is iPerf.

Getting an upgrade to my four year old GalagoPro, with a new GalagoPro and want an easy way to transfer (copy) the files (not settings) from my old machine to my new machine. Was thinking of using NitroShare (https://nitroshare.net/).

Easy mode -> NitroShare

Here a nice free software to transfer files to another computer on the same network https://nitroshare.net/